Literature is the art of writing something that will be read 
twice.
	- Cyril Connolly

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man 
who can't read them. 
	- Mark Twain

Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths 
of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the 
refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever 
befell man was the invention of printing. 
	- Benjamin Disraeli

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel 
tells us the truth about its author. 
	- G. K. Chesterton

Books won't stay banned - Ideas won't go to jail.
      - Alfred Whitney Griswold

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To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of 
certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools 
or slaves.
      - Claude-Adrien Helvetius

Every burned book enlightens the world.
      - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it 
consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of 
the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
	- Elizabeth Hardwick

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the 
place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university 
of these days is a collection of books.
	- Albert Camus

There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as
well as you can. The best argument is an undeniably good book. 
	- Saul Bellow














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One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and 
to their society - is to read to children.
	- Carl Sagan

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none 
which has done real evil.
	- Voltaire

The best books...are those that tell you what you know already.
	- George Orwell

It does not matter how many books you may have, but whether 
they are good or not.
	- Seneca

Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
	- Wislawa Szymborska

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown 
with great force.
	- Dorothy Parker (in a book review)

Reading makes immigrants of us all - it takes us away from home, but 
more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
      - Hazel Rochman

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one 
to another mind.
	- James Russell Lowell

Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled 
high with cases in my father's name; Piled high, packed large, 
where, creeping in and out among the giant fossils of my past, 
like some small nimble mouse between the ribs of a mastodon, 
I nibbled here and there at this or that box, pulling through 
the gap, in heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, the first 
book first. And how I felt it beat under my pillow, in the 
morning's dark. An hour before the sun would let me read! 
My books!
	- Elizabeth Barrett Browning



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